Critics Quotes

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You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a… — Georges Braque
The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. — John Ruskin
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is… — Edward de Bono
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. — Paul Gauguin
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling… — Paul Gauguin
The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty… — Paul Gauguin
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. — Claude Monet
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light. — Claude Monet
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
The media builds you up, and then it tears you down. — Thomas Keller
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers… — Clive James
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges
We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying. — Jimmy Wales
Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work. — Meher Baba
Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and… — Kenneth Grahame
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. — Billy Joel
Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. — Anthony Burgess
As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it… — Damien Hirst
The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends. — Don Henley
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? — Augustus William Hare
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips. — Thomas Beecham
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or… — Peter Bogdanovich

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